Chapter 609

It seems... that's really how it is?

After listening to Li Ang's analysis and questioning, the rebels, who were still a bit confused when bowing and weren't sure if they really opposed the leader, finally "woke up" completely this time.

That's right! That's exactly how it is!

Although I am not as clear as Little Bagins and can't directly say why, I must have vaguely sensed that something was wrong, which is why I felt Nathan was not suitable to be the leader...

No wonder, no wonder I suddenly bowed to Little Bagins just now. It turns out that although I couldn't explain the reason, I had already started thinking this way in my heart long ago...

"You... don't be fooled by him!"

Noticing the changing gazes of the crowd in the room and the attitude that was vaguely leaning toward the opposite side, the middle-aged man, who sensed that the "general trend was gone," couldn't help but say anxiously:

"Think about it! How old is Little Bagins? And except for attending a few years of community school when he was young, he hasn't read any books since he was thirteen or fourteen. How could he know so much?"

"Use your brains! Just those words from before, are they something someone who only attended three or five years of community school could say? I suspect he isn't Little Bagins at all!"

?!!!

After hearing the middle-aged man's reminder, the group of rebels in the room suddenly changed their expressions, and vaguely discovered that "Little Bagins" was indeed not quite right.

A few people who walked around the valley more and knew a little about Little Bagins's family situation cast suspicious gazes immediately.

Nathan's words... are actually not wrong?

Not to mention why the silent and isolated Little Bagins suddenly became so eloquent, just based on his level of community school dropout, it was impossible for him to improvise and give such a clear analysis of the situation, let alone that layer-by-layer, aggressive, and heart-stabbing questioning later.

……

It was indeed a bit too hasty... but it doesn't affect anything!

Feeling the suspicious gazes cast by the group of rebels, Li Ang couldn't help but narrow his eyes slightly, then sighed faintly and said with full disappointment:

"Lord Nathan, you still don't understand where you went wrong."

"You think that questioning my identity and forcibly calling me an impostor, solving me, the person who dared to stand up and question you, can make you, the leader, correct again?"

"To be honest, I even feel that you are a bit pathetic now. Pathetic because you don't even know who your true opponent is!"

After a bit of pretentious rambling, bringing the focus of the topic astray, Li Ang sat back in his chair and, under the gaze of the crowd, continued to drag out time calmly:

"Lord Nathan, before telling you this answer, can I ask you to answer me first: what is the first textbook that a six-year-old child is given after entering school?"

"Why are you talking about this?"

Caught off guard by Li Ang's strange question, the middle-aged man quickly reacted. He absolutely could not let the topic continue to be dragged by him, so he interrupted directly:

"What we are discussing now is your identity! It has nothing to do with any community school textbook! Don't try to use this method to evade my question!"

"I am answering your question!"

After prying the topic back again, Li Ang said at a very fast speed:

"If you have forgotten, I will tell you! The first set of textbooks for community school is reading, writing, and pronunciation, and the material used to teach children to recognize characters is the history of the kingdom for the past three hundred years!"

"All the children in the kingdom, the first sentence they learn when mastering reading and writing is how the kingdom was born! Do you still remember what that sentence said?"

"Of course I remember!"

The middle-aged man tried hard to compete for the right to speak:

"But that sentence has nothing to do with the current situation..."

"It has everything to do with it!"

After grabbing back the right to speak with a loud shout that was full of energy, relying on the excellent acting skills brought by the 【Elite Performer】, Li Ang recited seriously:

"With the joint support of nobles, citizens, factory owners, and merchants, the royal family drove away the past rulers, absorbed the scattered city-states that could not withstand the plunder of other kingdoms, and thus established the current kingdom."

"This is the first sentence that most people learn!"

"So what does this have to do with the current..."

"So it wasn't the royal family that established the kingdom and then gained the support of the majority; it was after gaining the support of the majority of power that the current royal family successfully established the kingdom! This is something even a child knows!"

After finishing the interpretation of this sentence, Li Ang looked at the somewhat stunned middle-aged man and shook his head:

"If you were really like what you said, preparing to save this country, then what you should do is show the changes you can bring, let more forces be willing to support you, instead of launching attacks indiscriminately, making everyone fear you or even be hostile to you!"

"You say it lightly!"

Panicked by Li Ang's words, the middle-aged man gritted his teeth and tried hard to argue:

"We are rebels! Those who choose to join us are either wounded veterans who are destitute, bankrupt civilians who have nowhere to go, or workers who are being squeezed and can't survive."

"What value can these people provide? Why should the forces you mentioned support us? Instead of having those groundless daydreams, it's better to do as I say, first..."

"Look, this is where my biggest disagreement with you lies."

After interrupting the middle-aged man's argument again, Li Ang shook his head and said seriously, trying to sow discord:

"Lord Nathan, I don't know what your background is, but I understand one thing..."

"Even if you single-handedly created the rebels, from the bottom of your heart, you don't look down on us at all, and you don't think we have any value!"

Oh no!

After hearing Li Ang's words, the middle-aged man, who knew he had made a slip of the tongue, was shocked and quickly tried to make up for it:

"This is not a question of looking down on or not! I'm stating a fact! Whether it's nobles, merchants, or the parliament, no one will support us at all!"

"Then have you ever thought about why those people won't support us?"

Feeling the slight vibration of the small mirror in his bosom, and being patted on the belly by the dog's claws, Li Ang, who knew that Senior Ai Ma was almost here, said slowly with confidence:

"Because under your leadership, we are just a ball of ghost fire that burns wherever it goes, and we have never even opened our mouths in the sunlight to propose what we truly want!"

"Or to put it more bluntly, because you don't look down on us from the bottom of your heart, and you have never tried to dig into our value, the rebels in your hands are just weapons used to launch attacks. Of course, you won't get any support!"

While Li Ang was speaking, he secretly touched the horns of the Black Goat and checked the soul state of the rebels.

Annoyance, resentment, suspicion...

It's stable!

After his deliberate sowing of discord, the rebels were increasingly dissatisfied with middle-aged Joshua. After Senior Ai Ma came, it was estimated that when middle-aged Joshua opened the door to get people, they might not even be willing to follow!

……

"Lord Nathan!"

From the time he entered the conference room, Li Ang, who had stirred the rebels to the verge of dissolution in just over a meal's time, continued to add fuel to the fire:

"Over so many years, there are thousands of veterans who have retired due to injuries just near the capital; there are countless workers who risk being crushed by machines, working high-intensity labor for more than ten hours a day, but whose wages are barely enough to support their families, and there are more than hundreds of thousands of them!"

"There are also small workshops that are constantly going bankrupt under the impact of large factories; farmers who have had their land occupied and can only farm on noble manors after grain prices have been squeezed down; and impoverished citizens who can't even find a stable job..."

"Do you know how many these people add up to?"

"I... probably..."

"You couldn't possibly know! Because you have never looked down on us, so you haven't even bothered to spend time paying attention to it. How could you know such a thing?" "……"

Facing the middle-aged man who was choked and unable to speak, Li Ang, who also didn't know how many there were, slowly stood up and said seriously:

"With so many people living in pain and longing for change, if you really saw them and were willing to help, and let one-tenth... or even one percent of them start to identify with us, no one would dare to ignore our opinions!"

"If you did that, even if the royal family didn't support us, they wouldn't hunt us down; even if the nobles didn't support us, they wouldn't dare to continue bullying us; even if merchants and factory owners didn't support us, they wouldn't hate or even be hostile to us!"

"……"

"Once we start trying to speak out in the sunlight and let citizens and workers see the significance of having someone speak for them, this first force will start to slowly lean toward us!"

"And with this true fulcrum, there will be even more things we can do next!"

"The royal family wants to check and balance the nobles and wants to control the increasingly large merchant group; the parliament wants to limit the power of the royal family and nobles and wants to regulate the commercial behavior of the merchant group; the nobles want to master more power and want to truly share a piece of the pie in business; merchants want to get rid of constraints, establish more laws favorable to business, and prevent being squeezed and exploited by other parties..."

After simply talking about the basic demands of all parties in the kingdom, Li Ang, while calculating the time for Senior Ai Ma to arrive, drew a big cake with sincere words:

"To gain support, you must first make yourself have enough value!"

"When we truly become a force, we become a sufficiently important weight. When these forces are playing games with each other, throwing us in can influence the tilt of the balance. And in exchange, the forces that have gained our support must also pay certain benefits."

"Factory owners who want to avoid being squeezed by the royal family and nobles need to give up the salary space for ordinary people; the royal family, which wants to suppress the old nobles through citizens and workers, needs to give more protection in legislation;"

"And if the parliament wants to gain support from citizens, it not only needs to help promote the passage of relevant legislation but even give up seats in the parliament..."

When he said this, Li Ang paused slightly, examined the expressions of the rebels in the room who were listening intently, and raised his tone slightly:

"Everyone! Once the people following behind us truly taste the benefits we bring and let more people see the significance of having someone speak for them, more and more people will start to lean toward us!"

"And once we truly become strong and become a force comparable to the royal family, nobles, parliament, and merchant groups, we can even take the initiative to force other forces to make concessions!"

"By that time, nobles who don't want to be completely crushed must curry favor with us! Merchants and factory owners who are worried about being boycotted and going bankrupt can only choose to treat us well!"

"And as we have more and more seats in the parliament, the Prime Minister must also consider our opinions when issuing government decrees! The royal family must even consult us when making important decisions! And this! This isn't even the end!"

It... it hasn't ended yet? We are already this fierce, and there can be even fiercer things later?

Hearing that this level wasn't even the end, the rebels in the room really couldn't hold on anymore. One by one, they breathed rapidly and clenched their fists, staring fixedly at "Little Bagins," who seemed to be shining, wanting to hear how fierce the rebels of the future could be.

Li's big cake, for those old oil-slicked politicians who are truly proficient in politics, as long as they taste it a little, they can taste that the filling of this cake is not solid enough.

After all, the feasibility of this set of things is not completely non-existent, and it is certainly much better than daydreaming, but the degree of goodness is also quite limited.

Just how to make everyone unite as one and avoid being drawn in and divided is a problem that cannot be bypassed, not to mention how to deal with the counterattacks of other forces, and even the squeezing of joint efforts. If these things cannot be solved, I am afraid they can only be dragged into endless wrangling.

But for the rebels who have an average education level of community school, or even dropped out of prenatal education, and can't write anything except their own names, this stack of big cakes that look bright and beautiful is enough to make people faint from the fragrance.

As for what drawing in and dividing, what counterattack and squeezing...

Laugh to death, over these years, we have been chased by the army and secret police so much that we dare not show our faces, and can only hide in this valley eight hundred miles away from the capital to build dirt houses. If we go out to take a pee, we might bump into a big tiger baring its fangs. How much worse can it be than now?

……

It's over! It's completely over!

Looking at the rebels in the room who were all staring at Li Ang with fanatical eyes, and not a single one was looking at himself, the middle-aged man only felt a chill in his body.

What the Aquarius Director said... is really not a single word off! This person who doesn't know if he is Little Bagins is truly dangerous beyond measure.

He had painstakingly managed for so many years, and it was not easy to gather a force sufficient to attack the Landing Tower, but he destroyed everything in less than thirty minutes.

He not only destroyed the rebels but also destroyed his plan to hide the kingdom's mineral resources by attacking the Landing Tower, thereby avoiding war.

It's over! From now on, everything is over!

After gritting his teeth hard, middle-aged Joshua stared fixedly at "Little Bagins" opposite him, regretting that after discovering that all six pointers were moving last night, he didn't go over and kill him directly, and even gave him the opportunity to attend the meeting!

I am really stupid!

Looking at "Little Bagins," who stood up in the expectant gazes of the crowd and seemed to want to say something, the middle-aged man took a deep breath and then slowly stood up as well.

"Lord Nathan?"

After noticing his actions, Li Ang's eyebrows twitched slightly, then he stopped speaking and stared at him, taking the initiative to ask:

"Do you have anything else to say?"

"Yes."

The middle-aged man nodded slowly, then opened his mouth:

"I was thinking, if I had... Nicole?"

Accompanied by his surprised voice, the door behind Li Ang made a creaking sound, as if it had been pushed open. Li Ang's heart also jumped, then he turned his head to look, and then...

"Bang!"

A silver-white nail with threads fiercely drilled out from Li Ang's heart and flew into the empty doorway and disappeared.

And this was not the end. Before the shot Li Ang could turn his head back, the middle-aged man who hated him to the bone pulled the trigger continuously, firing seven shots in a row, directly beating Li Ang's back into a bloody mess!

"Ah?"

"Little Bagins?!"

"Nathan!!!!!!"

"What I want to say is, if I had done this back then, it would have been great!"

After emptying the magazine from behind and killing "Little Bagins," who had ruined things, the middle-aged man, facing the rebel members in the room who had betrayed him, with hatred still in his eyes, threw away the nail gun in his hand, raised his hand to point at the rebels in the room, and sneered:

"Also, you idiots! Do you really think you can succeed by doing as he says?"

"Those nobles and merchants are not doing charity. Will they honestly follow the laws of the kingdom and play those things on the surface with you?"

"Heh, I don't deny that Little Bagins has the ability to do what he said. After all, he only spent the time of a meal to make you betray me. In this regard, he does have extremely terrifying talent."

"But those nobles and merchants don't need to win over Little Bagins with their mouths like I do. They only need to spend a small amount of money, hire a desperate fool, and hold a gun like me... Bang!"

After making a shooting gesture with his hand, the middle-aged man sneered:

"Wake up! The only person who can truly save the kingdom is me!"

"No matter how beautiful the road Little Bagins points out to you looks, but with his trash ability that can only make people bow, he can't protect his safety at all! As long as he, the leader, dies, everything is just empty... You... why aren't you dead yet?"

"Sorry... Ptooey!"

After climbing up and spitting out the bloody foam in his mouth, Li Ang touched the hole in his chest that was healing and then covered his clothes, turned his head back, and showed an embarrassed smile to the rebels in the room whose brains were on the verge of crashing.

"I just discovered that my ability seems to be more than just making people bow; it should also include an immortal body."

(End of chapter)